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Martinez was born in Paris, France, to a working-class family. His father was a Spanish professional boxer born in Spanish Morocco[2] and his mother was a French secretary. He studied at the CNSAD and began his acting career in his native France in 1990. Martinez was raised Roman Catholic.[3]

Martinez began dating American actress Halle Berry in 2010 after meeting on the set of their film Dark Tide.[13][14] They confirmed their engagement in March 2012.[15] On 22 November 2012, Martinez was treated at a Los Angeles hospital after being injured in a physical altercation with Canadian model Gabriel Aubry, Berry's former partner and father of her daughter.[16] Aubry and Berry had been involved in a custody battle centered on Berry's desire to move with her daughter and Martinez to his native France, a request denied by a judge less than two weeks prior to the altercation, on the grounds that it would interfere with Berry and Aubry's joint custody arrangement.[17] The custody dispute was resolved at the end of November.[18]

Berry and Martinez married in a private ceremony in France on 13 July 2013.[19] Their son, Maceo, was born in October 2013 in Los Angeles.[20][21]